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Buddhism? (2) - Dalai Lama's Black Magic 26 April 2008 This is the translation of the excerpt of a reaserch paper by 耶律大石, a resident in Taiwan province. The full text in Chinese can be viewed on www.realsidelama.cn. In Buddhism, there are two major schools, Hinayana and Mantrayana. In Mantrayana, there is a Tibetan branch, and the practitioners of which call it Vajrayana Buddhism or Yantrayana Lamaism. Tibetan lamas like to give rating to difference schools of Buddhism. They rank the Hinayana Buddhism, mainly practiced in Thailan, Sri Lanka and other Southeast Asian nations, as the intrance form of Buddhism, mark the Mantrayana Buddhism, chiefly represented by Han Chinese Buddhism, as at the middle level, while place their Vajrayana Lamaism at the top of the rating scale. Within the Vajrayana Lamaism, there are different factions, and Dalai Lama’s faction likes to give rating to different factions. They rank Nyingma as the intrance form of Lamaism, mark Sakya and Kagyu as at the middle level, while place their own Gelug the Yellow Hat at the top of the rating scale. Tibetan Lamas, the Yellow Hats in particular, are so obsessed with classifications and proud of the high rating they've given to themselves, that they think they have a holy responsibility to go to the Mantrayana and Hinayana monasteries preaching Lamaism, but will never invite Buddhist monks to speak in their own monastaries. The precepts that govern the behaviors of the odained Buddhists reflect the human ethics and morality to the highest standard. While Lamaism pays lip service to the importance of oberserving the precepts, it does not follow them in practice. In fact, it encourages lamas to do just the opposite of what are commenly regarded as right and good, and terms it as “Rule of Reverse”. For instance, if the conventional practice of the precepts requires lamas to maintain personal hygiene, then the filthiest one among all lamas would be considered as the cleanest; if the precepts demand lamas to obstain from sex, then a sex mania shall be regarded as a saint. Why? Because it is a way to achieve great order through maximum chaos. Then what is the perfect order from Lamaists' perspective? You may like to hear this: it is a world that is ruled by Tibetan Lamas in both political and religious aspects. Now you can easily spot a fundamental difference between Lamaism and Buddhism. Buddhist monks are the ones who try to free themselves from the confinement of the earthly reality, while the lamas are striving to position themselves in the centre of the everyday politics and mundane affairs. In China’s Han area, it is quite common in history that a failed official would retreat into a monastic existence to express his ultimate determination to give up his worldly ambition. An incident like this, however, could never happen in China’s Tibetan region, since in Lamaist culture, when one is ordained as a lama, he has entered the elite ruling class. If you can comprehend this tradition, you can then understand why the Tibetans are all keen to send their sons into monasteries. Mind you, the 14th Dalai Lama is a great master of this "Rule of Reverse". While Lamaism promots a strict hierarchical society, it becomes closely associated with some social “outcast” in the West, the anarchists and the hippies alike, who have been served as wonderful tools for the lamas to accomplish the complete order through a total chaos. Pre: Is Lamaism
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